Has Gregory Lanford, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $175,174 in general payments to Gregory Lanford, MD across 111 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Gregory Lanford, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Gregory Lanford, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Gregory Lanford, MD

Neurological Surgery · Nashville, TNNPI 1700856994

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $117,681 of the $175,174 with a category attached, or 67.2%. Stryker accounts for 67.0% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among neurological surgery clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$175,174in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 111 payments — averaging $1578.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$117K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$32K
Ecential Robotics$16K
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$6K
Johnson & Johnson$834
Medtronic$700
plus $1K from 5 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$117,68167%
Consulting fees$48,69428%
Travel & lodging$5,3513%
Food & beverage$3,4482%

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
Stryker	23	$117,324
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	49	$32,474
Ecential Robotics	2	$16,400
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	6	$6,116
Johnson & Johnson	7	$834
Medtronic(2 entities)	9	$700
Augmedics Inc.	3	$510
VB Spine LLC	3	$402
Abbott	5	$201
Spine Wave, Inc.	2	$157
DJO, LLC	2	$56

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

MOJAVE$78,810
MOJAVE EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$38,815
CONDUIT$27,335
SYMPHONY$26,483
Spine & Trauma 3D Navigation$20,163
Velys$13,288
NAVIGATION$7,185
Xvision$2,339
BENGAL$395
Teligen$188
MAZOR X SYSTEM$143
ADAPTIX INTERBODY SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$125
O-ARM-ST$124
Spinal Implants$120
BRAINLAB$104

How this compares

$175,174 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 156 neurological surgery providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$291,384

Medicare patients

382

Services billed

1,061

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Methylprednisolone	95	$626
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	65	$564
Methocarbamol	110	$497
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	52	$385
Gabapentin	59	$383
Tizanidine Hcl	41	$217
Doxycycline Hyclate	16	$146
Pregabalin	11	$137
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	14	$63
Tramadol Hcl	33	$60
Clonazepam	20	$45
Oxycodone Hcl	12	$44
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	11	$36
Diazepam	21	$35
Meloxicam	17	$30

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Nashville

Brian OshaughnessyNashville$2.1M
Chine LoganNashville$309K
Scott ParkerNashville$255K
Arthur UlmNashville$203K
William SchooleyNashville$105K
Khan LiNashville$101K
Ernest WrightNashville$63K
Dario EnglotNashville$47K
Chadd FunkNashville$38K
Vishad SukulNashville$27K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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